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STATE v. LOPEZ

No. 94-2396.

196 Wis.2d 725 (1995)

539 N.W.2d 700

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Saul R. LOPEZ, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 6, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the defendant-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Donald T. Lang, assistant state public defender.

On behalf of the plaintiff-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of James E. Doyle, attorney general, and Maureen McGlynn Flanagan, assistant attorney general.

Before Anderson, P.J., Brown and Snyder, JJ.

BROWN, J.

Saul R. Lopez, a citizen of Mexico, pled no contest to a charge of first-degree reckless injury. However, he was not advised by the trial court that his no contest plea could result in his deportation from the United States as is required by § 971.08(1)(c), STATS. Lopez later sought to withdraw his plea due to this omission. The trial court acknowledged the error but, after hearing testimony from Lopez's trial counsel that Lopez knew of the potential...

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